Born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam in 1970, now living in the US as a claimed and renamed TRA

Hmmm…

When AP’s adopt children then make money by selling books talking about those adoptions, does that mean the adoptees indirectly pay for or compensate for their acquisition “fees”?

I remember the controversy involving Angelina Jolie and all the fuss made over her supposedly selling photos of Pax to People Magazine. Some suggested that Pax had indirectly compensated for his adoption expenses and said this was unethical. I didn’t keep up much after that. *yuk

My point is that ethically, I don’t see much difference except that books could possibly be more harmful. There are quite a few reasons why many AP-authored “adoption journey” books bother me. In some ways, they strike me as more than a little exploitive especially when they’re written involving very young children.

More later… I’m pooped.

In the meantime, thoughts anyone?

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And how about when the adoptive parents put up cheezy ebay pages about trying to sell enough stuff to buy a child they’ve never met overseas usually that they’re already calling their “own.” They put the face up of some poor child who doesn’t even know them, and paint an entire story to sell things. The exploitation some people go to with adopted children and even adults makes me sick.